Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) made the case for immigration reform to Rush Limbaugh on his radio show Tuesday, but made clear his willingness to blow up talks if he thinks a bill is moving too far to the left.

Limbaugh, who said on Monday that “it’s up to me and Fox News” to kill immigration reform efforts, gave Rubio a respectful hearing but said he feared the senator was being exploited to advance Democratic goals.

Rubio defended his efforts as a shield against accusations that Republicans don’t care about immigrants in case negotiations fail.

You know Marco, you’re the Senator from Florida not the Senator for Rush Limbaugh. You don’t owe his sorry ass any explanation unless you’re trying to suck up to him to show you’re a “true conservative” and that’s the only thing that matters. Oh wait…….

You know Marco, you’re the Senator from Florida not the Senator for Rush Limbaugh. You don’t owe his sorry ass any explanation unless you’re trying to suck up to him to show you’re a “true conservative” and that’s the only thing that matters. Oh wait…….

I’d venture a guess that sucking up to Rush is pretty much a prerequisite for running in the Presidential primary.

Honestly think the items in Obama’s speech today that will send wingnuts further up the wall than “amnesty” is the call for legal immigration reform. Calls to do away with quotas and making it easier to immigrate to these shores is likely going to cause screaming fits about how Obama is trying to ship over the world’s poor here so he can get even more welfare dependents to vote for Democrats.

Honestly think the items in Obama’s speech today that will send wingnuts further up the wall than “amnesty” is the call for legal immigration reform. Calls to do away with quotas and making it easier to immigrate to these shores is likely going to cause screaming fits about how Obama is trying to ship over the world’s poor here so he can get even more welfare dependents to vote for Democrats.

Yes, unfortunately. Saw McCain’s proposal downstairs and this is coming from a man with a moderate reputation on the issue. Don’t want to know what the more nutty have in mind and will respond.

It’s a very delicate dance. Romney tried it but he obviously wasn’t even close to being conniving enough to pull it off. It’s all about sounding crazy enough to win the primary, but doing so in a deniable “that wasn’t really what I was saying” manner so that you can believably move to the middle in the general.

Can we just call Marco Rubio a joke? I’m sorry but I can’t take this guy seriously when he seems to care more about defending his plan to Rush fucking Limbaugh than actually providing a real solution. Who cares about how “left” or “right” it is you partisan hack, it should be about how the legislation can better help American immigrants not about what makes poor widdle Rush Limbaugh feel that he can trust Marco Rubio enough. Seriously, if there’s ever a Republican senator that has the courage to tell Rush Limbaugh that he doesn’t give a shit what Limbaugh says about him or her and that his fat ass should be a national joke for all the crap he’s said over the past two decades, that man or woman will have my honest respect. What has Rush Limbaugh done to deserve the ass kissing he gets?

It’s a very delicate dance. Romney tried it but he obviously wasn’t even close to being conniving enough to pull it off. It’s all about sounding crazy enough to win the primary, but doing so in a deniable “that wasn’t really what I was saying” manner so that you can believably move to the middle in the general.

Pretty much. Kind of like Mitt can hire Kris Kobach and claim he wasn’t trying to be insensitive to Latinos.

It’s a very delicate dance. Romney tried it but he obviously wasn’t even close to being conniving enough to pull it off. It’s all about sounding crazy enough to win the primary, but doing so in a deniable “that wasn’t really what I was saying” manner so that you can believably move to the middle in the general.

I don’t care how conniving you are, you can’t bravely announce your dog whistle to Rush on live radio.

I know this may blow minds on the right, but a few poor souls on the left actually listen to that show and record what is said.

And then the rest of us actually do research when deciding what candidates to support.

Crazy, I know, listening to quotes that people actually said rather than “you didn’t build that” soundbites.

As the Obama administration continues to be a complete nightmare for antifeminist activist Phyllis Schlafly, the Eagle Forum president is out with a new column attacking Defense Secretary Leon Panetta over his decision to end the ban on women in combat. She claims the policy shift is “lacking in common sense and it is toadying to the feminist officers who yearn to be 3- and 4-star generals based on the feminist dogma of gender interchangeability and on their desire to force men into situations to be commanded by feminists” and even makes a bogus analogy to the NFL.

Schlafly said that the rate of sexual assaults “will skyrocket” if the ban is removed and also attacked the “feminist ideology” for blaming men for such incidents: “Only men will be deemed at fault because it is feminist ideology that men are innately batterers and women are victims.”

I don’t care how conniving you are, you can’t bravely announce your dog whistle to Rush on live radio.

I know this may blow minds on the right, but a few poor souls on the left actually listen to that show and record what is said.

And then the rest of us actually do research when deciding what candidates to support.

Crazy, I know, listening to quotes that people actually said rather than “you didn’t build that” soundbites.

I like the defense of Rush that he’s using satire. Remember Palin defending Limbaugh for calling liberal democrats retards on the air but blasting Rahm Emmanuel for saying it off camera. Limbaugh could say the n-word repeatedly on the air and it would be defended because Rush apparently is the greatest satirist since Jonathan Swift.

To quote Michael Douglas in “The American President,” Rush is good at 2 things: making you afraid of it, and telling you who’s to blame for it.

That’s pretty much it. Take a bunch of people who are hyper-conservative, which means they come equipped with a victim complex and varying levels of racism and bigotry, and tell them exactly what they want to hear. They have a need to be afraid of damn-near everything, and he just spoon-feeds them sugar-coated fear.

And a Republican telling him off? Please. If they even utter something he doesn’t like they have to go on an apology tour to kiss his ass. If a Republican from a minority background won’t do it, none of them will. At least not one that wants to stay in the good-graces of the base.

I like the defense of Rush that he’s using satire. Remember Palin defending Limbaugh for calling liberal democrats retards on the air but blasting Rahm Emmanuel for saying it off camera. Limbaugh could say the n-word repeatedly on the air and it would be defended because Rush apparently is the greatest satirist since Jonathan Swift.

Curiously, nobody on the left seems to believe this, no matter how many times it is bellowed.

Perhaps if the right wing paid any fucking attention whatsoever to the thoughts and ideas on the left, they might realize this and either try a new strategy/excuse or (lol j/k) reject Rush entirely.

Personal responsibility for thee but not for me. I’ve always been amused by Phyillis though. You know the whole slam women who work outside the home while she has you know sort of made a career out of it.

There seems to be more movement on the immigration issue than I’ve seen in a while, but I seriously doubt any bills will make it through the House of Tea Party Representatives unless they include moats and minefields.

Personal responsibility for thee but not for me. I’ve always been amused by Phyillis though. You know the whole slam women who work outside the home while she has you know sort of made a career out of it.

She’s been doing it since I was in grade school. That’s a loooong time. I recognized the hypocrisy even then.

She’s been doing it since I was in grade school. That’s a loooong time. I recognized the hypocrisy even then.

I always thought it was funny considering we know nothing about Mr. Schalfry.I mean if she was a woman who happened to be conservative fine but she’s made a career running down feminism and women who advocate equal opportunities for women.

There seems to be more movement on the immigration issue than I’ve seen in a while, but I seriously doubt any bills will make it through the House of Tea Party Representatives unless they include moats and minefields.

The Senate bill is really not that wonderful, either.

The fact that they’re still making ‘border security’ a part of immigration reform tells you that they’re trying to do as close to nothing as they can.

She claims the policy shift is “lacking in common sense and it is toadying to the feminist officers who yearn to be 3- and 4-star generals based on the feminist dogma of gender interchangeability and on their desire to force men into situations to be commanded by feminists”

I always thought it was funny considering we know nothing about Mr. Schalfry.I mean if she was a woman who happened to be conservative fine but she’s made a career running down feminism and women who advocate equal opportunities for women.

And her son is following in her footsteps. That’s what all manly conservative men do, right?

On his radio program on Friday, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins added his voice to the Religious Right’s collective outrage over the Pentagon’s decision to allow women to serve in combat positions. The move, Perkins warned, will decrease morale and deter volunteers to the point that “we will have to reinstate the draft.”

Listening to the Republican reaction to immigration reform on CNN right now.
Their two interviews:
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), who was quoted on Monday as saying the following:

[T]he GOP should have no interest in providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, claiming that most are uneducated, government-dependent individuals who wouldn’t support the party.

“I hope politics is not at the root of why we’re rushing to pass a bill. Anyone who believes that they’re going to win over the Latino vote is grossly mistaken,” Barletta said, according to the Morning Call.

Then Phil Kent of the Georgia Immigration Review Board just went full dogwhistle by saying that immigration reform can’t happen until we keep Muslims from immigrating into the US.

This is the kind of insanity that President Obama is having to combat for proper reform.

There seems to be more movement on the immigration issue than I’ve seen in a while, but I seriously doubt any bills will make it through the House of Tea Party Representatives unless they include moats and minefields.

The Senate bill is really not that wonderful, either.

When I saw in the framework that they want to give border state governors a say in whether border security is sufficient or not, hinging a pathway to citizenship on such a finding, I knew that they weren’t all that serious. It’s about having a fail-safe in place so that they can say “See, the reason we haven’t gone forward with making people legal citizens is because the border is still unsecured!”

Listening to the Republican reaction to immigration reform on CNN right now.
Their two interviews:
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), who was quoted on Monday as saying the following:

Then Phil Kent of the Georgia Immigration Review Board just went full dogwhistle by saying that immigration reform can’t happen until we keep Muslims from immigrating into the US.

This is the kind of insanity that President Obama is having to combat for

The former is the one that Rush invoked in Rubio’s presence, which should have earned a spit in his face rather than a “reasoned” response. The argument is “These are not conservative, hard-working individuals who want to come here, it’s the world’s refuse. They’re not natural Republicans and we shouldn’t let them in just to swell the Democrat ranks.”

The former is the one that Rush invoked in Rubio’s presence, which should have earned a spit in his face rather than a “reasoned” response. The argument is “These are not conservative, hard-working individuals who want to come here, it’s the world’s refuse. They’re not natural Republicans and we shouldn’t let them in just to swell the Democrat ranks.”

Really as an immigrant’s son, Rubio could have used that moment to school Rush but no he prefers kissing Rush’s sorry ass. I bet Marco’s parents are so proud of him for cozying up to a man who thinks they have no work ethic. Because Rush Limbaugh is the embodiment of hard work. Drop out of college and trash people and make millions.

One of the few groups of people I really can’t seem to figure out: anti-feminist women. Always seem to be the hoity-toity types (prim and proper? not sure exactly what to use). What are they afraid of? I think most women want to do more than cook, clean, and pump out a unit every 9 months.

It almost seems puritanical in nature, like they’re afraid women might be successful at what historically was a male-laden occupation.

One of the few groups of people I really can’t seem to figure out: anti-feminist women. Always seem to be the hoity-toity types (prim and proper? not sure exactly what to use). What are they afraid of? I think most women want to do more than cook, clean, and pump out a unit every 9 months.

It almost seems puritanical in nature, like they’re afraid women might be successful at what historically was a male-laden occupation.

One of the few groups of people I really can’t seem to figure out: anti-feminist women. Always seem to be the hoity-toity types (prim and proper? not sure exactly what to use). What are they afraid of? I think most women want to do more than cook, clean, and pump out a unit every 9 months.

It almost seems puritanical in nature, like they’re afraid women might be successful at what historically was a male-laden occupation.

Do not get. Please to explain me it. /shrug

They believed in a set of rules that held them back.
They see other women succeeding when they never took the chance.
They resent them for making them feel bad, so attack the women rather than the belief system they’re invested in.

bencoates57 says:
January 29, 2013 at 3:35 pm
As soon as I can build up my savings again, I’m taking my family to France and leaving this country behind for good. The French have a country they can call their own. France. It’s only people born in the United States who have no country. Their country belongs to the world. If Congress approves this immigration reform, it is for one reason and one reason only. Votes. No one has the courage to act in accordance with common sense or character.

They believed in a set of rules that held them back.
They see other women succeeding when they never took the chance.
They resent them for making them feel bad, so attack the women rather than the belief system they’re invested in.

But yet Phyillis Schalfry is successful in a way. She’s a published author, columnist, and can take a lot of credit for the defeat of the ERA. Really for a woman who disdains feminism, she’s benefited from what feminists strive for women: A world where women have an as equal say in the world of influence. I don’t get why she’s never seen the irony in that. I mean as I said, it’s not that she’s a woman who happens to be conservative, she’s made her bones denouncing policies that have benefited women like her.

They believed in a set of rules that held them back.
They see other women succeeding when they never took the chance.
They resent them for making them feel bad, so attack the women rather than the belief system they’re invested in.

You mean like self-hating, repressed gays who are jealous of other gays who had the strength and the courage to come out?

They believed in a set of rules that held them back.
They see other women succeeding when they never took the chance.
They resent them for making them feel bad, so attack the women rather than the belief system they’re invested in.

It’s more like the fact that there is a lot of money and fame for useful idiots who sell out their own in service to their oppressors (or in the case of patriarchy, the oppressive system and those who benefit most from it).

and mass deportations will be so much more inexpensive and what does Bonehead’s idiot spokesman mean by drag it to the left? I guess that’s asswipe code for “anything we don’t like.” Sigh I hate these obstructionist fucks.

and mass deportations will be so much more inexpensive and what does Bonehead’s idiot spokesman mean by drag it to the left? I guess that’s asswipe code for “anything we don’t like.” Sigh I hate these obstructionist fucks.

A series of rallies by Tea Party activists and pro-gun campaigners will be held across the US in response to the 23 executive orders introduced by President Obama that organisers say are “unconstitutional”.
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The day of resistance website features an American flag covered with the shadows of protesters holding guns, including assault rifles, aloft. Stockton runs the conservative website TheTeaParty.net along with 20-full-time staff, and said the protests could be bigger than the wave of Tea Party protests that swept across the US following Obama’s 2008 election win.

Pity we can’t collect these behaviors onto a stage, film it, rotoscope animate it, and then sell it to the Japanese media as a new American-ized form of Kabuki. Since that essentially is what it is, theater.

This is all but guaranteed to lead to some sort of provocation/confrontation that is going to end up with people injured and/or killed…

But that is what these guys are gunning for. They are convinced that Obama is out to take their guns, they want the government to do something that they can use to “prove” that they were right all along.

This is all but guaranteed to lead to some sort of provocation/confrontation that is going to end up with people injured and/or killed…

But that is what these guys are gunning for. They are convinced that Obama is out to take their guns, they want the government to do something that they can use to “prove” that they were right all along.

I remain convinced a lot of these people are a police siren away from kicking off their own personal Waco.

“Let me — let me clarify this. What we — we haven’t written the section, but what we envision is — is to create metrics, measurements, in terms of progress on border security that could be certified or at least attested to by local officials. But the ultimate decision will be by the Department of Homeland Security. So it isn’t going to be something as generic as safe and secure borders. We’d never agree on that. But metrics, in terms of resources on the border and the impact it has on illegal immigration.”

I can already see this running into trouble with the “states rights” crowd.

How do they even arrive at that figure for Medicare, Medicaid, SS, food stamps, and unemployment?

Can’t help but be suspicious of the number and want to see their math.

There’s a flip side to legalizing their status in some fashion - that path to citizenship.

At the end, these people will be:
1) paying fees (fines) for the legalization process;
2) paying SS/Medicare/Medicaid/UI taxes;
3) paying federal and state withholding in on the books transactions;
4) the health care costs could potentially be a wash since the nation is already paying for those costs - just not in the same fashion. Burden shifting is at play here and these people would be paying into the system and spreading the costs at the same time.

I’ve yet to see any really good analysis on this front, but the basis for the $2.7t seems to be that the illegal immigrants tend to work in lower skill positions and therefore don’t generate sufficient wages to generate revenues sufficient to offset the greater numbers. Take that deficit on an annual basis - multiply by 10 years, and presto - there’s your figure.

I’ve yet to see any really good analysis on this front, but the basis for the $2.7t seems to be that the illegal immigrants tend to work in lower skill positions and therefore don’t generate sufficient wages to generate revenues sufficient to offset the greater numbers. Take that deficit on an annual basis - multiply by 10 years, the wingnuts are pulling it out of their ass, and presto - there’s your figure.

I’ve yet to see any really good analysis on this front, but the basis for the $2.7t seems to be that the illegal immigrants tend to work in lower skill positions and therefore don’t generate sufficient wages to generate revenues sufficient to offset the greater numbers. Take that deficit on an annual basis - multiply by 10 years, and presto - there’s your figure.

This would be roughly a quarter of a million dollars per person. That… seems like a lot. It’s a factor of five more than the US public debt per person (about $50,000), and we’ve been doing our best to accrue that for at least the last thirty years.

It’s certainly a smelly enough number to demand that someone show their math.

I’m always amused when they bring up Hitler’s vegetarianism as a means of bashing vegetarians and vegans. I mean I love a good steak and I could never go vegetarian let alone vegan but really bringing up that Hitler was one as a means of denouncing it? Maybe we should discredit Christianity because most of the slave owners before the Civil War were Christians!

They can’t even spell Adolf Hitler right, but I’m supposed to trust them to get the quote correct.

Mmmmhmmmm.

There was a fake Hitler quote tweeting around, something about “We have achieved gun control.” I killed it a couple of times, but I really need MOAR SILVER BULLETZ or whatever you kill undead fake quotes with.

The Hitler was a leftist crowd always goes quiet when you bring up that outside of the Jewish people, Hitler’s biggest targets were on the left. I’m sorry but you can’t bitch at the left for promoting cultural diversity and then say we’re the same as the Nazis who were white supremacists. You just can’t do that with a straight face. Really, I’d love to see one of these revisionist dummies tell Hitler or better yet any current neo-Nazi he or they are or was on the left. They seem to think anti-capitalism= leftism, that’s not true. Right wing extremists have long tried to make capitalism and communism part of the same conspiracy.

What? My 7.62X39 doesn’t rate? Oh, well, it’s an off-brand furrin’ type from Romania, a country the average wingnut doesn’t know from rhubarb anyway.
It might also be because there is no 62nd of July.

It’s obvious that Romans come from Romania. And they sound like pasta-eating wimps like the Italians who were led by that Moose-lini fella, who was probably some sort of secret Muslim like Obama. Which is why he hung around with Hitler.

The Hitler was a leftist crowd always goes quiet when you bring up that outside of the Jewish people, Hitler’s biggest targets were on the left. I’m sorry but you can’t bitch at the left for promoting cultural diversity and then say we’re the same as the Nazis who were white supremacists. You just can’t do that with a straight face. Really, I’d love to see one of these revisionist dummies tell Hitler he was on the left.

When you kill one talking point, they will just switch to another one.

he voice of Neil Heslin quavered frequently as he talked of his son, Jesse Lewis, who died in the massacre. “I’m here today to just hopefully get the word out that changes have to be made. I’ll tell you a little bit about Jesse. He was a boy that loved life, lived it to the fullest. His mother and I are both separated, he spent an equal amount of time with both of us.

“He was my son, he was my buddy, he was my best friend,” Heslin said, his voice breaking. “I never thought I’d be here speaking like this, asking for changes on my son’s behalf. I never thought I’d be laying him to rest. The happiest day of my life was the day he was born, he’s my only son, my only family. And the worst day of my life was the day when this happened and I buried him.”

“I ask if there’s anybody in this room that can give me one reason … why anybody … needs to have one of these assault-style weapons or military weapons or high capacity clips,” Heslin said.

“The Second Amendment shall not be infringed,” shouted several male voices in the crowd.

Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, co-chairman of the task force subcommittee that held the hearing, ordered the crowd to refrain from responding.

Heslin continued: “We’re all entitled to our own opinion. I respect their opinions and their thoughts but I wish they’d respect mine and give it a little bit of thought and realize that it could have been their child that was in that school that day.”

When you have the chair calling for order, that’s telling you that it was heckling and out of line - and that the folks who responded did so out of line.

Heslin had the microphone and was entitled to ask rhetorical questions. The hecklers felt the need to interject.

They can’t even spell Adolf Hitler right, but I’m supposed to trust them to get an alleged quote of his correct.

Mmmmhmmmm.

This one appears to be correct. The english translation is from John Toland’s “Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography” written in 1976. It is a part of his May 1, 1927 speech.

On the other hand by 1929 he was saying (paraphrase) that socialism was an unfortunate word choice. It implied support of communists, since they were using the word as well but meaning something different. (end of paraphrase). Same book, by the way.

When you have the chair calling for order, that’s telling you that it was heckling and out of line - and that the folks who responded did so out of line.

Heslin had the microphone and was entitled to ask rhetorical questions. The hecklers felt the need to interject.

I don’t see how anybody could be a worse human being than to heckle a man who’s 6-year-old son was murdered. How somebody in that crowd who wasn’t a replacement-penis-fetishist didn’t clock one of those assholes is beyond me. Maybe I lack self-control.

In future, I am just going to point out that they do believe in gun-control.

They (at least the people I know) do not think automatic firearms or flamethrowers should be available to citizens. Moving the line to semi-auto isn’t that much of a change.

Most gun nuts I’ve met think “gun control” means using both hands. And they agree with keeping guns from the mentally ill and criminals, except when they can make excuses for both. The former when they say they’ve been “treated” and the latter when they argue that non-violent felons be allowed to still own a gun.

Most gun nuts I’ve met think “gun control” means using both hands. And they agree with keeping guns from the mentally ill and criminals, except when they can make excuses for both. The former when they say they’ve been “treated” and the latter when they argue that non-violent felons be allowed to still own a gun.

Listening to the Republican reaction to immigration reform on CNN right now.
Their two interviews:
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), who was quoted on Monday as saying the following:

Then Phil Kent of the Georgia Immigration Review Board just went full dogwhistle by saying that immigration reform can’t happen until we keep Muslims from immigrating into the US.

This is the kind of insanity that President Obama is having to combat for proper reform.

A little bit of background on Barletta- he was voted into one of the longest held Democratic seats in the House in the Tea Party wave.

The guy made his name as mayor of WIlkes-Barre by evicting illegals and more or less making like uncomfortable for Latinos in the town. Keep in mind- this isn’t very far away from where the hate crime murder occurred a couple of years ago.

They believe in keeping guns from people they don’t agree with. A non-violent felon who’s black? They’d still want his ass not to have a gun.

Hell, take one of these recent “demonstrations,” some dumb jackoff walking around with a rifle, now imagine if it was a black guy or a Muslim doing the same. They’d want his ass arrested in a heartbeat.

Hell, take one of these recent “demonstrations,” some dumb jackoff walking around with a rifle, now imagine if it was a black guy or a Muslim doing the same. They’d want his ass arrested in a heartbeat.

Most gun nuts I’ve met think “gun control” means using both hands. And they agree with keeping guns from the mentally ill and criminals, except when they can make excuses for both. The former when they say they’ve been “treated” and the latter when they argue that non-violent felons be allowed to still own a gun.

The thing that bothers me the most is that most gun traders would rather set their balls on fire than keep records of what they sold to whom, and when. Freaking out at the idea of having to maintain a list of inventory. It’s nutty.

The thing that bothers me the most is that most gun traders would rather set their balls on fire than keep records of what they sold to whom, and when. Freaking out at the idea of having to maintain a list of inventory. It’s nutty.

They do that because they live in constant fear that the government might order them to turn over those records.

A little bit of background on Barletta- he was voted into one of the longest held Democratic seats in the House in the Tea Party wave.

The guy made his name as mayor of WIlkes-Barre by evicting illegals and more or less making like uncomfortable for Latinos in the town. Keep in mind- this isn’t very far away from where the hate crime murder occurred a couple of years ago.

Ah I thought he was a sheriff. I do remember hearing about him though.

They do that because they live in constant fear that the government might order them to turn over those records.

I’d guess they know they’re probably selling some things illegally. Better to commit a much lesser crime and not do proper paperwork because they know the DoJ etc. probably won’t be bothered worrying about a paper trail.

I’d guess they know they’re probably selling some things illegally. Better to commit a much lesser crime and not do proper paperwork because they know the DoJ etc. probably won’t be bothered worrying about a paper trail.

“You sold this gun?
“Sorry, I don’t keep records of that kind of stuff.”
“This guy says you sold him the gun.”
“I sold a lot of guns that day, how was I keep track of who I sold them to?”
“He was involved in an armed robbery yesterday.”
“So what? I just sold the gun, it’s not like I knew what he was going to use it for.”

Actually thinking about it, I think I know how I recognized her. In the WWII magazine I worked for, one of the features was pin up of the month and they’d show a famous actress or singer. Lucy was one of them. Anyhow, she was pretty. They say gentlemen prefer blondes but this guy prefers brunettes and red heads.

ProgressVirginia reported Tuesday afternoon that the Virginia Senate’s Privileges and Elections Committee killed Sen. Charles “Bill” Carrico Sr.’s electoral college-rigging bill, despite an offer by Carrico to amend the bill to award electors in proportion to the state’s popular vote. The vote was 11-4 against the bill, although it will not be official until the close of the committee meeting.

It was dead when McDonnell who no doubt knows this would bite him in the ass big time if he runs for president much like the vaginal ultrasound poo-pooed it. Still relieved. There’s no reason at all why Mitt Romney should have gotten 2/3’s of this state’s EV when he lost it by a pretty decent margin last November.

Last week, Louisiana’s poor and terminally ill residents won a surprising victory when Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) announced that his state would not stop providing hospice care to its Medicaid beneficiaries. Unfortunately, that’s about the only piece of good news for low-income Louisianans’ health coverage, as the state is still set to implement massive cuts for Medicaid programs that “provide behavioral health services for at-risk children, offer case management visits for low-income HIV patients and pay for at-home visits by nurses who teach poor, first-time mothers how to care for their newborns” this Friday.

While Jindal administration officials argue that the cuts could be mitigated by Medicare and private managed care programs, the reality is that many of these specialty services are simply unavailable — or unaffordable — outside of Medicaid:

OTOH, if you let everything Austin, San Antonio and all points south stay with the United States, I’d be more than happy to let the rednecks in East and West Texas secede to their heart’s content.

Why not just take a northern chunk, merge it into Oklahoma to make a rectangular state, and then let that become the raging hole of mutual antagonism that can then suck all the other unhappy folk in?
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Nah, I wanna watch them try to make it on their own in the modern world.

Yeah, I’ve run a lot of simulations on what happens if Texas secedes. There are a lot of assumptions that need decided. For example there are a lot of international companies with headquarters or major regional offices in Texas. Will they stay? That, in the end, is the make or break for the state.

The federal government will have to pull out. No choice. That includes the border patrol, that much maligned agency. Texas suddenly becomes a factor in the Mexican Cartel Wars. Oh, especially with the army, navy, and air force withdrawing. The question of who owns the various materiel the national guard uses becomes significant.

A truly large concern for the US would be the various nuclear facilities in Texas. In particular Pantex, near Amarillo, which is at this time the only (known) nuclear assembly/disassembly facility in the US. Yeah, that should raise some hackles.

Texas is on the edge of declaring an emergency and seeking federal assistance due to the drought. It’s a pretty solid guarantee that the state can’t produce enough food to feed its citizens, much less its residents.

Texas produces oil. More important for its economic future is it refines oil. It can produce and refine enough for its needs at this time. It can refine enough for income - provided it can secure its ports and facilities from terrorists and criminals.

It would be a massive headache for everyone, and in the end I think Texas would become a third world country or return to the US within a generation. But that’s not a certainty, and a decent tweak of some assumptions makes Texas a small but significant player - like Switzerland or Denmark.

Yeah, I’ve run a lot of simulations on what happens if Texas secedes. There are a lot of assumptions that need decided. For example there are a lot of international companies with headquarters or major regional offices in Texas. Will they stay? That, in the end, is the make or break for the state.

The federal government will have to pull out. No choice. That includes the border patrol, that much maligned agency. Texas suddenly becomes a factor in the Mexican Cartel Wars. Oh, especially with the army, navy, and air force withdrawing. The question of who owns the various materiel the national guard uses becomes significant.

A truly large concern for the US would be the various nuclear facilities in Texas. In particular Pantex, near Amarillo, which is at this time the only (known) nuclear assembly/disassembly facility in the US. Yeah, that should raise some hackles.

Texas is on the edge of declaring an emergency and seeking federal assistance due to the drought. It’s a pretty solid guarantee that the state can’t produce enough food to feed its citizens, much less its residents.

Texas produces oil. More important for its economic future is it refines oil. It can produce and refine enough for its needs at this time. It can refine enough for income - provided it can secure its ports and facilities from terrorists and criminals.

It would be a massive headache for everyone, and in the end I think Texas would become a third world country or return to the US within a generation. But that’s not a certainty, and a decent tweak of some assumptions makes Texas a small but significant player - like Switzerland or Denmark.

I think it would degrade rather quickly into (I forget the term) the Sterotypical South American Feudal State. Lord of Estates ruling their slaves and serfs, basically, all delineated by skin color.

Producing and refining oil is a source of income if you can find a steady customer for what you produce and a supplier for what you can’t. Texas would probably face a lot of countries who, seeing it isolated from the US proper, would take advantage of its much reduced strength to renegotiate things in their favor.

Yeah, I’ve run a lot of simulations on what happens if Texas secedes. There are a lot of assumptions that need decided. For example there are a lot of international companies with headquarters or major regional offices in Texas. Will they stay? That, in the end, is the make or break for the state.

The federal government will have to pull out. No choice. That includes the border patrol, that much maligned agency. Texas suddenly becomes a factor in the Mexican Cartel Wars. Oh, especially with the army, navy, and air force withdrawing. The question of who owns the various materiel the national guard uses becomes significant.

A truly large concern for the US would be the various nuclear facilities in Texas. In particular Pantex, near Amarillo, which is at this time the only (known) nuclear assembly/disassembly facility in the US. Yeah, that should raise some hackles.

Texas is on the edge of declaring an emergency and seeking federal assistance due to the drought. It’s a pretty solid guarantee that the state can’t produce enough food to feed its citizens, much less its residents.

Texas produces oil. More important for its economic future is it refines oil. It can produce and refine enough for its needs at this time. It can refine enough for income - provided it can secure its ports and facilities from terrorists and criminals.

It would be a massive headache for everyone, and in the end I think Texas would become a third world country or return to the US within a generation. But that’s not a certainty, and a decent tweak of some assumptions makes Texas a small but significant player - like Switzerland or Denmark.

A lot would also depend on the relationship with the US. Houston is on the Gulf, but a lot of the rest of the state is in the hinterlands close to the “new” US border. And on rivers that run through US territory, so movements there will need some sort of relationship. Also creates a lot of border to patrol and handle with whatever sudden expansion the state-become-national government enacts.

In the short run there would probably be a lot of smuggling as there would be some sort of imbalance regarding goods and/or taxes that someone would try to exploit.

The Public Religion Research Institute found that 27 percent of Americans believe God plays a role in determining which teams wins sports events. A majority — or 53 percent — also agree that God rewards believing athletes with success and good health.

“In an era where professional sports are driven by dollars and statistics, significant numbers of Americans see a divine hand at play,” said Robert P. Jones, PRRI’s chief executive.

I think it would degrade rather quickly into (I forget the term) the Sterotypical South American Feudal State. Lord of Estates ruling their slaves and serfs, basically, all delineated by skin color.

Ha! You don’t think there will be millions of white serfs?

The poors are the poors; I don’t think the power brokers really give a damn which is which. The serfs shall bicker amongst themselves; the bosses above will live gilded lives of excess and care not at all on whose back that gilding is borne.

The poors are the poors; I don’t think the power brokers really give a damn which is which. The serfs shall bicker amongst themselves; the bosses above will live gilded lives of excess and care not at all on whose back that gilding is borne.

The chart below represents how much of the state’s budget comes from the federal government. The number is the corresponding ranking in relation to the rest of the nation (if #1, the state receives the highest percentage of federal funding in the nation):

I see little guarantee that an actual democracy would survive the breakaway. The less wealthy whites might get to “vote”, but I think it’d be better to keep the two groups (non-wealthy whites and non-wealthy non-whites) squabbling on an ostensibly even footing, so that they don’t particularly notice their actual enemy.

I see little guarantee that an actual democracy would survive the breakaway. The less wealthy whites might get to “vote”, but I think it’d be better to keep the two groups (non-wealthy whites and non-wealthy non-whites) squabbling on an ostensibly even footing, so that they don’t particularly notice their actual enemy.

It would be a democracy as we think of in colonial terms: White, landowning males would be allowed a vote, perhaps proportional to how much land they own. There would be “concessions” to the need to seem ostensibly democratic by allowing some non-landowners to vote, but the vast majority would go without representation on the grounds that they “have no skin in the game.”

It would be a democracy as we think of in colonial terms: White, landowning males would be allowed a vote, perhaps proportional to how much land they own. There would be “concessions” to the need to seem ostensibly democratic by allowing some non-landowners to vote, but the vast majority would go without representation on the grounds that they “have no skin in the game.”

Or you’d tell them they’re voting but just ignore them. Easy enough, they already don’t fucking believe in math.

It would be a democracy as we think of in colonial terms: White, landowning males would be allowed a vote, perhaps proportional to how much land they own. There would be “concessions” to the need to seem ostensibly democratic by allowing some non-landowners to vote, but the vast majority would go without representation on the grounds that they “have no skin in the game.”

You also realize that this would be the answer to Jerry Jones being able to get the Cowboys to win another national championship in his lifetime!
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Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation owns some natural gas deposits in South Texas. Due to some of Rick Perry’s bullshit, there’s a toll road owned and operated by a Spanish company, Cintra. So maybe there would be six flags over “Texas” again after all.

On Focal Point today, Fischer drew a direct line between “Big Gay” and women in combat. “Malicious” and “sinister” gay rights activists, he claims, are “trying to destroy the military,” which will ultimately mean “they’re going to have a tough time filling their ranks with qualified soldiers. So they’re going to have to go to the draft, and that means your daughters are going to be pulled into the draft and they could be sent into combat to die, whether they want to do it or not, because of Big Gay.”

Because in the past, brave men like Bryan Fischer would serve and.. oh wait, he never served? Never enlisted back in the days when only manly men were allowed to serve? And all his dire predictions that the military would utterly collapse when homosexuals were allowed to serve didn’t come true either?

Its almost as if Bryan Fischer is completely full of shit. But how is that even possible considering how many GOP stalwarts are willing to kiss his ass on the radio on a regular basis?

Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation owns some natural gas deposits in South Texas. Due to some of Rick Perry’s bullshit, there’s a toll road owned and operated by a Spanish company, Cintra. So maybe there would be six flags over “Texas” again after all.

Maybe someone sent Perry a copy of _Snow Crash_ and he just didn’t get it.

I was really glad to see how vocal he’s been about this issue. The way the one Maryland state legislator flipped his shit on it was hilarious. Really, football could use more guys like him and Chris Kluwe of the Vikings showing that just because you’re a jock doesn’t mean you’re a bigot.

Two prominent conservative movement officials who hold leadership positions for several right-wing groups—Ron Robinson and James B. Taylor—run a political action committee that donated thousands of dollars to a white nationalist organization, according to public records. And for several years Taylor was vice president of another white nationalist organization.

Robinson and Taylor are each board members of Young America’s Foundation (YAF), which cofounded the annual Conservative Political Action Conference and runs the conservative youth group Young Americans for Freedom. (YAF owns and manages the Ronald Reagan Ranch, trains conservative journalists, and calls itself “the principle outreach organization of the Conservative Movement.”) And Robinson, YAF’s president, is on the board of two other conservative groups: Citizens United, which brought the landmark Supreme Court case of the same name, and the American Conservative Union, which operates CPAC.

With these positions, Robinson and Taylor are at the center of mainstream conservative infrastructure. But each also sits on the three-person board of America’s PAC, a far-right outfit that in 2004 gave $5,000 to the Charles Martel Society, a white nationalist group, according to the PAC’s filing with the Federal Election Commission. Taylor, YAF’s former executive director and a current board member, founded America’s PAC in 1983. Both his and Robinson’s names appear on America’s PAC letterhead before and after the donation to the Martel Society. Since 2004, America’s PAC has raised and spent over $5 million, giving donations to dozens of Republican candidates.

Because if there’s any sexuality that’s represented as Big Sex, it’s teh gayz. I mean, look at all of the institutional support they get from, say, ancient world-wide filthy-rich organizations like the Catholic Church!

More prosaically, I defy anyone to attempt to use ‘Big Gay’ in a serious sentence without giggling.

Because in the past, brave men like Bryan Fischer would serve and.. oh wait, he never served? Never enlisted back in the days when only manly men were allowed to serve? And all his dire predictions that the military would utterly collapse when homosexuals were allowed to serve didn’t come true either?

Because if there’s any sexuality that’s represented as Big Sex, it’s teh gayz. I mean, look at all of the institutional support they get from, say, ancient world-wide filthy-rich organizations like the Catholic Church!

More prosaically, I defy anyone to attempt to use ‘Big Gay’ in a serious sentence without giggling.

It can’t be done.

Yeah “Big Gay” is just as funny as them talking about “teabagging” with no sense of the sexual meaning of the word. BIG GAY!

I was really glad to see how vocal he’s been about this issue. The way the one Maryland state legislator flipped his shit on it was hilarious. Really, football could use more guys like him and Chris Kluwe of the Vikings showing that just because you’re a jock doesn’t mean you’re a bigot.

PPP’s newest poll finds that only 31% of voters think Perry should seek reelection next year, compared to 62% who think it’s time for him to step aside. He’s among the most unpopular Governors in the country, with only 41% of voters approving of him to 54% who disapprove.

Perry could face great peril in a primary challenge next year. Only 41% of GOP primary voters want him to be their candidate again, compared to 47% who think it’s time for someone else. And in a head to head match up with Attorney General Greg Abbott, Perry leads by only a 41/38 margin. What makes those numbers particularly worrisome for Perry is that Abbott only has 59% name recognition at this point with primary voters. Among voters who are familiar with Abbott- whether they like him or not- he leads Perry 55/33. That suggests the potential for things to get worse for Perry if Abbott does indeed go forward with a bid.

Ha, recall the debates. One of the few issues Perry wasn’t totally batshit on was immigrant and Romney outwinged him on that.

That was really the beginning of the end for him. The “Uh…” moment was the final nail in the coffin, but he seriously lost the wingnuts when he declared out loud that you can’t just deport all the illegals.

I have yet to see anything about a potential mass exodus of not only people, but businesses that would not want to remain in that State once it left the Union and the effects it would have on the population and economy.

That was really the beginning of the end for him. The “Uh…” moment was the final nail in the coffin, but he seriously lost the wingnuts when he declared out loud that you can’t just deport all the illegals.

Did he do that before or after he had that really odd moment when it seemed like he was in a drunken stupor in Iowa? That was just bizarre. It was there I could see why people said that George W. Bush copied his mannerisms from Perry.

No matter how many whiny rednecks complain about ZOMG BLACK PREZNIT, this state will never secede. We depend on the feds for almost half our budget.

Texas would become a Third World country inside of a deacde the moment they leave the US, especially once the military and all the federal offices pull out and all these morons realize their homes and portfolios are suddenly worthless because they’re no longer dealing in American dollars.

I have yet to see anything about a potential mass exodus of not only people, but businesses that would not want to remain in that State once it left the Union and the effects it would have on the population and economy.

The best thing to hope for Texas and it probably will happen is that it will become a purple state. I know, I know, sounds nuts but I remember my government teacher thinking I was nuts to think Virginia would start trending Democratic. I mean granted that was probably because I thought 2004 would be close when it wasn’t but Obama has won the state convincingly in both his wins.

The fight that seems to be forming is going to be over “enforcement,” namely the GOP is going to insist that border state governors have a veto on whether or not the border is sufficiently secured, and Democrats are going to insist that enforcement is not used to block a path to citizenship.

Students in some Texas public school Bible courses learn that the Founding Fathers were largely orthodox Protestant Christians who intended for the United States to be a distinctively Christian nation with laws and a form of government based on the Bible. Countless historians and other scholars have shown how such claims are distortions, but those distortions are core beliefs among ideologues on the religious right. The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund’s new report, Reading, Writing & Religion II: Texas Public School Bible Courses in 2011-12 by Prof. Mark Chancey at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, documents one prominent way such courses promote this ideological perspective: “proof by sound bite.” From the report:

“The most common technique for making such arguments is to string together quotations lauding the Bible, Christianity or religion in general from political philosophers, historic documents, the Founding Fathers and other famous Americans. These quotations are typically cited in a completely decontextualized manner, almost as if they are biblical proof texts with self-evident meanings. Fake quotes never actually uttered by the speaker to whom they are attributed are cited side by side with legitimate ones. Even authentic quotes are sometimes presented in such a way as to misrepresent the views of their sources, and no quotes that would support alternative viewpoints are discussed or acknowledged.”

All of those techniques are troubling, of course. But perhaps the most astonishing is the presentation of phony quotations in curriculum materials. For example, consider these quotations provided in materials used in a number of school districts:
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but the gospel of Jesus Christ.” (attributed to Patrick Henry)

“The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.” (attributed to Herbert Hoover)

“The Bible is the source of liberty.” (attributed to Thomas Jefferson)

Yeah, it’s really neat. The longer you let it run, the more the tweet light up the map. Europe has been consistently staying a few hundred tweets ahead of us since I started watching. It’s the middle of the night over there—wonder what they’re doing…

Rodrigo Diaz, 22, was driving around with his girlfriend and two friends when he pulled into a driveway, thinking they had arrived at another friend’s house, his brother says. But instead he pulled into the driveway of Phillip Sailors, 69, who thought his home was being robbed, his lawyer says. Sailors then shot Diaz, according to the police report, citing what Sailors told officers at the scene. Diaz later died after surgery.

“Basically, what happened is they were looking for one of my brother’s girlfriend’s friends,” says his brother David E. Diaz-Valencia, 23. “The guy came outside and my brother’s girlfriend said he was screaming, ‘Get off my property!’ and he shot into the air. My brother was backing out fast because he was scared and he rolled down the window to say he was sorry and he was not doing anything wrong. Then the guy shot him in his head.”

I have yet to see anything about a potential mass exodus of not only people, but businesses that would not want to remain in that State once it left the Union and the effects it would have on the population and economy.

Meh. Sarah Palin has a far better shot at winning the Presidency than Texas has of seceding. It’s just not going to happen. You bet there would be a mass exodus. Most Texans are happy to be Americans.

Had a distant relative (aunt’s by marriage great aunt) who at the age of 75, took a shotgun, shot her husband of 50 years in bed while he slept, wrapped him in a sheet and stuffed him in the basement, then went about her daily routine. They lived in the country, no one around for miles to hear the shot.

A few weeks later, neighbors wondering why they hadn’t seen him went to the house to ask about him. “Oh, I shot the son of a bitch. I had finally taken enough of his shit.”

Had a distant relative (aunt’s by marriage great aunt) who at the age of 75, took a shotgun, shot her husband of 50 years in bed while he slept, wrapped him in a sheet and stuffed him in the basement, then went about her daily routine. They lived in the country, no one around for miles to hear the shot.

A few weeks later, neighbors wondering why they hadn’t seen him went to the house to ask about him. “Oh, I shot the son of a bitch. I had finally taken enough of his shit.”

The vote Tuesday was 94-3. One senator — Kerry — voted present and accepted congratulations from colleagues on the Senate floor. The roll call came just hours after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the man who has led the panel for the past four
years.

The 3 senators…Inhofe and my two asshole senators from TX;
Cruz and Cornyn

“Sen. Kerry has a long history of liberal positions that are not consistent with a majority of Texans,” Cornyn said in a statement. The senator is up for re-election next year and could face a tea party challenge.

Yeah, it’s really neat. The longer you let it run, the more the tweet light up the map. Europe has been consistently staying a few hundred tweets ahead of us since I started watching. It’s the middle of the night over there—wonder what they’re doing…

The vote Tuesday was 94-3. One senator — Kerry — voted present and accepted congratulations from colleagues on the Senate floor. The roll call came just hours after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the man who has led the panel for the past four
years.

The 3 senators…Inhofe and my two asshole senators from TX;
Cruz and Cornyn

Time magazine’s Vivienne Walt reports that some experts on the ground in Mali say many of the manuscripts were saved before the Islamists’ pillage:

Realizing that the documents might be prime targets for pillaging or vindictive attacks from Islamic extremists, staff left behind just a small portion of them, perhaps out of haste, but also to conceal the fact that the center had been deliberately emptied.

“The documents which had been there are safe, they were not burned,” Mahmoud Zouber, Mali’s presidential aide on Islamic affairs, told Time, “They were put in a very safe place.”

Other experts confirmed that while there were “a few items” in the Ahmed Baba library, the rest were protected in an undisclosed hiding place. […]

Johnson pressed Kerry to commit to finding out what, exactly, happened on Sept. 11, 2012 at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

“Well, there was a briefing with tapes, which we all saw, those of us who went to it, which made it crystal clear,” Kerry said. “We sat for several hours with our intel folks, who described to us precisely what we were seeing. We saw the events unfold. We had a very complete and detailed description.”

Do you have insurance? GET YOUR ANKLE XRAYED IMMEDIATELY. Even if you don’t have insurance, Mitt Romney said it’s totally free, you don’t have to stay in your apartment and die!

I will but I’ll wait until tomorrow. Kind of late now. It’s semi-OK when I’m lying down. I can sort of walk on it but I sound like a choo-choo train that lets out a groan rather than a train horn every 2 seconds.

I will but I’ll wait until tomorrow. Kind of late now. It’s semi-OK when I’m lying down. I can sort of walk on it but I sound like a choo-choo train that lets out a groan rather than a train horn every 2 seconds.

Ankles are one of those you kinda don’t want to wait around on. When I rolled my ankle and sprained it, I was in the truck and on the way to the hospital as soon as the Mrs. Fish could get me off the floor. Also, as mentioned upthread, sprains paradoxically take longer to heal than breaks. Annoying as all get out for a semi-active geek like me.

I will but I’ll wait until tomorrow. Kind of late now. It’s semi-OK when I’m lying down. I can sort of walk on it but I sound like a choo-choo train that lets out a groan rather than a train horn every 2 seconds.

sprains are the worst of the three as far as pain goes-SO I’ve been told.

because of my hypermobility, I have sufficient experience with ankle sprains advise lots of ice.

They’d do that at the ER anyway.

Got an ice pack waiting in the freezer. Had some ice on it before. Spoke with a nurse from Denver General earlier. She said to keep it elevated, ice, pain killers, etc. I’m kind of breaking the rules now but I’ll log off here in a bit and get horizontal again.

Got an ice pack waiting in the freezer. Had some ice on it before. Spoke with a nurse from Denver General earlier. She said to keep it elevated, ice, pain killers, etc. I’m kind of breaking the rules now but I’ll log off here in a bit and get horizontal again.

Laid me out flat for 15 minutes, beating the ground and crying. No one was around, no one came to my aid.

It was in a parking lot and apparently the “handicapped” sign had been removed.

Because I have done such things before and will do them again, I knew I wasn’t broken or torn. Just put ice on it and cursed.

6 weeks to heal.

Ice! That’s what caused this in the first place! From now on I’m staying far away from any ice on the ground. Unless the house is burning or something. I can rotate my ankle without much pain. No bruising and the swelling isn’t that bad.

Ice! That’s what caused this in the first place! From now on I’m staying far away from any ice on the ground. Unless the house is burning or something. I can rotate my ankle without much pain. No bruising and the
swelling isn’t that bad.

Back when I was doing a lot of sparring and some heavy/full contact martial arts Donna had to nurse me through quite a few injuries like big contusions, sprains and a few minor cracked bones like fingers or a rib.

What I remember the most is a sprained ankle and a broken heel bone. Those things hurt more than any other injuries i have ever had as a very fortunate guy. So far never needed surgery apart from dental.

I’ve been conditioned thanks to America’s great health care system. Apparently, you might break a leg here in the USA and then proceed to “shop around” for an inexpensive clinic. Or something. Hell, I’m not going there now. They’ll rip me off and bill me for a ton of money the way they always do. Don’t pay and then they throw a collection agency at ya.

I’ve been conditioned thanks to America’s great health care system. Apparently, you might break a leg here in the USA and then proceed to “shop around” for an inexpensive clinic. Or something. Hell, I’m not going there now. They’ll rip me off and bill me for a ton of money the way they always do. Don’t pay and then they throw a collection agency at ya.

Sorry man, I keep forgetting. In Canuckistan we take the ability to get free health care for granted too easily.

There’s no system to this system. Frankly, I don’t think even ACA will change that. Health care here is like going out to buy a used car. You’re on your own and there’s no central “clearinghouse” that’s out there to help our citizens. Just laws. Then they’ll tell you it’s your responsibility to know those laws and “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” It’s the same old Calvanism.

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